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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection"

"Sing louder aroundTo the bells' cheerful sound,While our sports shall be seenOn the ecchoing green."

81 quotes

🇫🇷Guy Debord

Philosophy

Situationist International

1931–1994

"What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false."

"The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in."

"pdf - selected quotes of Vincent van Gogh, by the former director of the MoMA; Alfred H. Barr, 1935"

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🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"complete text of De Kooning's lecture 'What Abstract Art Means to Me' February 5, 1951 - on the 'What is Abstract Art?' symposium, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 5, 1951"

"I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things."

52 quotes

🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work."

"'Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously'."

"You become an artist to upset your family."

31 quotes

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art

Expressionism

1876–1907

"I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!"

"happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. .. rendering the God-spirit in the mountains."

"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."

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🇺🇸Franz Kline

Music

abstract expressionism

1910–1962

"People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important."

"In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy."

"The time when physically nothing is happening is equally important."

"Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow; Obituary, New York Times, February 12, 1948"

"I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art."

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🇩🇪Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Literature

Dada

1874–1927

"Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life."

10 quotes

🇳🇱Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch

Art

Hague School

1824–1903

"Weissenbruch to Anton Mauve: He is drawing damn well, I could paint after his studies."

"I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli in some degree."

"I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene."

🇭🇷Alfred Freddy Krupa

Art

b. 1971

"Conversation with Alfred Freddy Krupa by Francesco Scagliola, Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago, 2017"

"John Rewald: GEORGES SEURAT, complete monograph in pdf; on Archive"

"Kurt Schwitters is the inventor of Merz and I, and aside of himself, he recognizes no one as a Merz artist or an I artist with highest regards."

"The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it."

"At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss."

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🇳🇱Rembrandt

Art

Dutch Golden Age painting

1606–1669

"Rembrandt van Rijn in the "History of Art"

28 quotes

Sina Mesdag-van Houten

Art

Hague School

1834–1909

"free pictures of her paintings and drawings: on the website, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam"

"Eye : "Historically, copying the Masters was considered to be a part of the painter’s training, not the final product", by Rian Hughes"

"I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own."

"When I'm sitting in front of my easel again.. .I'm going to make things that no one would have expected of me."

"images of his art, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"I fancy all distinctively poetical language ought to be banned and the poetry come out of the quality of the idea and the intensity or passion with which it is expressed."

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🇨🇦Philip Guston

Art

abstract expressionism

1913–1980

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

39 quotes

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